The 2023 National Book Awards
Congratulations to Dan Santat, winner of the 2023 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Our vocabulary lists will help you get the most out of his graphic memoir A First Time for Everything — and the other titles nominated for this prestigious award.
A First Time for EverythingIn this graphic memoir, the author recounts the struggles of middle school and how a three-week European group trip transformed his life in positive ways at the age of thirteen.
GatherWith all of his family sick, dead, or gone, sixteen-year-old Dorian Gray Henry looks for ways to keep himself and a stray dog alive in rural Vermont and Tennessee.
The Lost YearStuck in his New Jersey house during the Covid pandemic, thirteen-year-old Matthew helps his hundred-year-old great-grandmother organize her stuff and learns about her life as a Young Pioneer in 1930s Ukraine.
Simon Sort of SaysTwelve-year-old Simon O'Keeffe tries to forget that he survived a tragedy when his family moves to the National Quiet Zone in Nebraska, where radio signals are banned to prevent interference with astronomers' search of outer space.
More Than a DreamThe Radical March on Washington for Jobs and FreedomIn this nonfiction account, the authors present their research on the causes and contributions that led to the historic 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Forget Me NotWaking up from a two-week coma, eighteen-year-old Stevie Green has trouble remembering events and people from the past two years of her life in a small town in Pennsylvania.
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